2025 NSW STATE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, March 21st – Sunday, March 23rd
- Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Initial Entries
The initial entries have been released for the 2025 New South Wales State Open Championships which begin on Friday, March 21st.
Among the list of athletes is Olympic champion and world record holder Kaylee McKeown, with the competition representing the versatile superstar’s potential first appearance since pulling out of last year’s World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.
McKeown tore up the Olympic pool in Paris, capturing a remarkable five medals including repeating as champion in both the women’s 100m and 200m backstroke events.
She then embarked on the World Cup but wound up withdrawing in the midst of the first stop in Shanghai, citing ‘putting her mental health first.’
McKeown bypassed the Short Course World Championships, Queensland Championships and additional competitions meaning these NSW Championships would be our first glimpse of the 2024 Swammy Award winner for Oceanian Female of the Year with the World Trials on the horizon.
Although not the final entries, McKeown is set to race the 100m free, 50m/100m/200m back and the 200m IM next week.
Key Entries
- Albury Amateur Swimming Club – Sienna Toohey
- Carlile Swimming Team – Olivia Wunsch
- Cranbrook Aquatics – Marcus Da Silva
- Germany – Lucas Matzerath
- Griffith Swimming Club – Enoch Robb
- Griffith University – Haig Buckingham, Joshua Edwards-Smith, Hayley Mackinder, Kaylee McKeown
- Marion – Matt Temple
- Melbourne Vicentre – Tara Kinder, Sam Williamson
- Mingara Aquatic – Bradley Woodward
- MLC Aquatic – David Schlicht
- Nunawading Swimming Club – Isabella Boyd
- SOPAC Swim Club – Matthew Galea, Se-Bom Lee, Matt Wilson
- St. Andrew’s – Jack Carr
- Sweden – Louise Hansson
- Tea Tree Gully – Brittany Castelluzzo
- USC Spartans – Abbey Connor, Zac Incerti, Thomas Nowakowski, Alexandria Perkins
The boss lady is back!!
Queen Kaylee is back
Why does it seem like she doesn’t get the attention and praise she deserves? She’s remarkable!
she gets plenty of praise on this site and she deserves it.
She’s also got 173k followers on Insta, which is more than any of the Americans in that 20 – 23 age range. Also note that Gretchen and Alex, in part because of sponsorships, actively try and grow their followers.
Regan Smith – 145k
Gretchen Walsh – 124k
Alex Walsh – 117k
Kate Douglass – 110k
Torri Huske – 109K
Mollie O’Callaghan – 92.7k
It’s Mollie who isn’t getting the social recognition for her accomplishments.
People love Kaylee, who is SwimSwam’s #2 ranked swimmer for 2025 ( https://staging.swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2025-womens-10-1/ ) and it’s hard to argue against Summer McIntosh being in front of her.
so glad our Queen has taken time to chill out. Can’t wait to see her back in the pool <3
Yeah hopefully she can dig herself out of the hole she dug. Aussies are notorious early retirement and with how well Regan is doing it’s probably in her best interest to retire. She did well years ago
By “years ago” I assume you mean last year and the year before and the year before that
Literally 6 days ago Regan swam the slowest 100 and 200 backstrokes she has swam since before Tokyo lol.
I know this is obvious trolling and I shouldn’t respond but I can’t help myself
…she has swum…. (I couldn’t help myself!)
Right on Alison:
Today I swim
Yesterday I swam
I have swum!!!!
The only thing worse than a grammar correcter is one that gets it wrong.
You’re incorrect. My sentence is grammatically correct. If I had said “In the last week Regan has swum her slowest times since before Tokyo” then swum would be correct. Swum is incorrect for my sentence.
Swam is past tense. Swum is past participle.
Generally a specific point in time (eg 6 days ago) means swam is more appropriate, while a more general point in time (eg in the past week) would mean has swum is more appropriate.
Haha! What is much worse is your trying to be clever when you are wrong.
No. I used correct grammar. You tried to correct me but you don’t know how to use the words properly. I then correctly explained why you’re wrong. Now you’re upset and doubling down on being wrong again.
If you want to explain why you think you’re right then go for it (but you’re not).
Have a good day.
You are so funny